11. VII.

1. Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, Harvard 1811, was minister of the First Church
on Chauncey Place, Boston, and an overseer of the college from 1819 to 1850. His wife
was the former Ann Gorham Brooks (1797–1863), who was the sister of CFA’s future wife. See Adams Genealogy.

2. JQA’s copy of William Roscoe, The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, 4 vols., Phila., 1805, is in the Stone Library.

Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0003-0004-0012

Author: CFA

Date: 1824-04-12

12. VI:15.

1. The Society of the Knights of the Order of the Square Table was the first Northern
festive club at Harvard. (For sectional rivalry within the clubs, see 13 June, below.) Its predecessor was probably the Knights of the Order of the Pudding Stick,
whose history is lost to us, there being only a fragmentary record remaining in the
Harvard Archives. Little is known of the Knights of the Square Table during CFA’s
stay at Harvard, for its own records are missing (see entry for 22 Oct., below) and mention of the club in the faculty records appears mostly earlier or
later than CFA’s time, chiefly because the faculty took cognizance of a club only
when its members presented disciplinary problems. For scattered references to the
Knights’ activities, see Records of the College Faculty, volumes 10–11 (1814–1840),
Harvard Archives, and also some pamphlets under the club titles, housed in the Archives.
Subsequently the Knights of the Square Table merged with the more famous Porcellian
Club.